What pissed you off today? Mark III

[Bramblethorn]

I know a nice lady who's been with her partner for years and years and really wants to get married. Which isn't legal here, so far. There have been a few bills put forth to legalise same-sex marriage, and even though ~ 70% of the country supports the idea, it's never quite made it through parliament, and every time that happens it's painful for her.

The latest development is that we're having a national postal survey, and if the result is "yes" then Parliament might vote to change the law (though the survey isn't binding, and we haven't seen how the resulting legislation would actually be worded). This has led to all the usual ugliness and bullshit about how gay people are unfit parents, we love and respect gay people but that doesn't mean they should have the same rights, etc. etc.

My friend and her partner have a lovely little kid, five years old. He knows his mamas want to get married, and he's heard about the survey and he's already planning out their wedding, down to stuff like what dresses they should wear and how the kitten is going to carry the ring (look, he's a five-year-old, they're not known for practicality).

And instead of being able to just delight in how adorable that all is, they have to think about how to prepare him for the possibility that the vote might be "no" (or that it's "yes" but then the law doesn't change for some reason) and wait for sixteen million total strangers to pass judgement on whether their relationship deserves the same options for recognition as anybody else's.

(And if the vote does come back 70% Yes, even then they have to live with the knowledge that three in ten of their fellow Australians thought they didn't deserve equal rights.)

It just seems so bloody-minded and cruel.

 

[Farawyn]

I know a nice lady who's been with her partner for years and years and really wants to get married. Which isn't legal here, so far. There have been a few bills put forth to legalise same-sex marriage, and even though ~ 70% of the country supports the idea, it's never quite made it through parliament, and every time that happens it's painful for her.

The latest development is that we're having a national postal survey, and if the result is "yes" then Parliament might vote to change the law (though the survey isn't binding, and we haven't seen how the resulting legislation would actually be worded). This has led to all the usual ugliness and bullshit about how gay people are unfit parents, we love and respect gay people but that doesn't mean they should have the same rights, etc. etc.

My friend and her partner have a lovely little kid, five years old. He knows his mamas want to get married, and he's heard about the survey and he's already planning out their wedding, down to stuff like what dresses they should wear and how the kitten is going to carry the ring (look, he's a five-year-old, they're not known for practicality).

And instead of being able to just delight in how adorable that all is, they have to think about how to prepare him for the possibility that the vote might be "no" (or that it's "yes" but then the law doesn't change for some reason) and wait for sixteen million total strangers to pass judgement on whether their relationship deserves the same options for recognition as anybody else's.

(And if the vote does come back 70% Yes, even then they have to live with the knowledge that three in ten of their fellow Australians thought they didn't deserve equal rights.)

It just seems so bloody-minded and cruel.

It is. It makes me sick.
I'm really vocal about this kind of stuff. To the point of annoying the Fuck out of people.
No. I will not shut up, not until we are at least near the same page as each other. Everyone.


WPMOT?
Ed Sheehan.

 

[Blue]

It just seems so bloody-minded and cruel.

Well they're trying to entwine both yours and our respective laws with the morality laid out in the holy book of slave owning, women-subjugating, genocidal and ethnic supremacist desert tribes of goat herders in the bronze age so...yeah.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It is. It makes me sick.
I'm really vocal about this kind of stuff. To the point of annoying the Fuck out of people.
No. I will not shut up, not until we are at least near the same page as each other. Everyone.

Well they're trying to entwine both yours and our respective laws with the morality laid out in the holy book of slave owning, women-subjugating, genocidal and ethnic supremacist desert tribes of goat herders in the bronze age so...yeah.

Honestly it's not even religion at this stage. Two-thirds of Australian Catholics support the right to same-sex marriage. It's just arseholes who can't stand the idea that somebody else might find a different path to happiness :-(

 

[Primalex]

My friend and her partner have a lovely little kid, five years old. He knows his mamas want to get married, and he's heard about the survey and he's already planning out their wedding, down to stuff like what dresses they should wear and how the kitten is going to carry the ring (look, he's a five-year-old, they're not known for practicality).

And instead of being able to just delight in how adorable that all is, they have to think about how to prepare him for the possibility that the vote might be "no" (or that it's "yes" but then the law doesn't change for some reason) and wait for sixteen million total strangers to pass judgement on whether their relationship deserves the same options for recognition as anybody else's.

(And if the vote does come back 70% Yes, even then they have to live with the knowledge that three in ten of their fellow Australians thought they didn't deserve equal rights.)

It just seems so bloody-minded and cruel.

Nothing stops them from having a wedding that has no legal effect.

 

[Primalex]

Anyway, what I actually wanted to say:

The inability to stay asleep.

 

[Vixandra]

I'm now allergic to amoxicillin, hex it all. Found out via blistery, red rash over the past few days on my hands and feet. Damn complications from the hysterectomy gave me an abcess which got infected, so high dose antibiotics are needed. Doc in urgent care gave me a new antibiotic and some steroids to knock down the swelling.

Did think it was odd it started there, but better walking on fire than breathing through a tube due to a more severe reaction or worse.

 

[MeekMe]

RLS no sleep

 

[Blue]

Seems to be a lot of sleep deprivation going around these days.

Very tired. Whole body, especially eyes, ache. Can't co-ordinate properly or think straight, but can't seem to even rest never mind sleep.

 

[Vixandra]

Had to quit working earlier than I wanted. Why- because I fainted last night, flat out standing then suddenly I'm hissing in pain on the floor because even foam flooring isn't going to cushion that much. I think I tore something, I see the doc Thursday for a follow up, will ask. Guess laparoscopic wounds don't like fainting.

I can't go talk down my four year old who is having a melt down during ABA therapy because I'm dizzy laying down. I hate that. Why the fuck can no one else get that more than one demander to perform a task confuses then angers him into a melt down?

 

[Blue]

Spent hours and hours outlining a map of the entire world.
Saved as PNG.
Accidentally overwrote as JPG.
No backup copy.
Behold Cyprus...

https://i.imgur.com/ZTp19Mj.png

The whole thing got messed up.

 

[gracie920101]

Spent hours and hours outlining a map of the entire world.
Saved as PNG.
Accidentally overwrote as JPG.
No backup copy.
Behold Cyprus...

https://i.imgur.com/ZTp19Mj.png

The whole thing got messed up.

Fuck.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Two friends, same age as me, both diagnosed with stage 4 cancers in the last fortnight. This a couple of weeks after burying another friend :-/

I was reading a news topic about SOUR HONEY from Brazil can cure most cancers. There was more and the reasons why it's not available has to do with big Pharm and politics which involves lots of money that would be lost by drug stores and doctors.
I got to the part about something 'PDS' for dementia when the site went dead.

Like years ago, we were told a cure for cancer and Alzhiemers will be out soon. Again all information disappeared. They don't want cures. They want our money even though prescription drugs are killing us.

I don't know why I can't get this! I've read several tutorials, watched videos and tried looking through the examples in the book and I just can't get it!

Get off the porn sites and study!

Anyway, what I actually wanted to say:

The inability to stay asleep.

Me too. Even with prescribed sleeping pills, I can't sleep.

Seems to be a lot of sleep deprivation going around these days.

Very tired. Whole body, especially eyes, ache. Can't co-ordinate properly or think straight, but can't seem to even rest never mind sleep.

Yep! I try to take a nap and just lay there thinking useless crap. My wife has short term dementia and my mind won't stop remembering the past.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Spent hours and hours outlining a map of the entire world.
Saved as PNG.
Accidentally overwrote as JPG.
No backup copy.
Behold Cyprus...

https://i.imgur.com/ZTp19Mj.png

The whole thing got messed up.

The world is flat. Buy a map.

 

[Blue]

Neck hurts too much to sleep.

 

[Vixandra]

I'm an honorable person, I won't leave my people or their stuff stranded. I had a hysterectomy September 22nd for medical issues and am NOT supposed to be driving until November.

Last weekend was a historical reenactment that I attended with my service person (cause I need one) and drove my truck up because I needed my fold away bed, personal lockable cooler, etc.

Sunday morning I wake at 430 to use the bathroom and find my guildmaster with two of his inner circle around him as he quietly sobbed. Because his husband had left at 0400 with their truck, stranding GM, his son and the guilds trailer. But of course before asshat left, he pulled out his hitch to put on my truck as hubby deliberately took mine off before we left to prevent what happened. Guildie that lived closer to GM took him and kiddo home. But my companion and driver had Never pulled a trailer, much less in the dark with winds and strong gusts. So I had to drive it home because I can't teach trailer pulling in the windy dark going down a very steep freeway that is always busy and people are nuts on. Especially if I don't know exactly how it handles and she'd had panic attacks recently. There's a lot of core work, at least for me, when it's windy and my core is so not ready for that yet.

I fell once the week after surgery, one faint. I've fallen/fainted seven times today alone because that drive was way beyond what I should have done. This entire week has been like that. My honor and dedication were taken for granted and abused (everyone knew I was recovering and am on super light duty baseline anyway). I emailed the guild mistress pro term until the GM finishes grad school because this was not okay, I'm livid, still in pain a week later and grossly disappointed in his behavior. My service person/bff/it's complicated asked why I didn't resort to violence. I answered because that's not how the game is played as I cannot safely duel him, another route must be found, more subtle in nature. I've won the game before to remove a guild problem person. A whisper here, a commiseration there, soon I have the majority of the guild and board on my side and I want him demoted in character rank and guild position. It's a long term game, but I'm patient in this regard. It helps I already know two of the five board members are ticked off too, especially the pro-term guild mistress/board member I talked to. Haven't talked to GM because asshat is his husband and I don't want to cause him more pain or prompt another fight between them for GM's sake.

Also, fainting five weeks postop sucks. I can't get above the pain from it, no matter how high I get or if I take the pain meds I was given post-op. Or both (doc knew I was gonna). Which isn't helping the forgive and forget concept.

 

[Primalex]

Because his husband had left at 0400 with their truck, stranding GM, his son and the guilds trailer.

A whisper here, a commiseration there, soon I have the majority of the guild and board on my side and I want him demoted in character rank and guild position. It's a long term game, but I'm patient in this regard. It helps I already know two of the five board members are ticked off too, especially the pro-term guild mistress/board member I talked to.

Sorry, but I really don't get how you people tick. All your stories about your "guild" make me facepalm - and not really because of the "villain". Your "guild" feels like drama class trying to roleplay adults.

"Some guy screwed us over - we are going to be really hard on him and lower his character rank, after all I'm such a tough master-schemer."

Seriously?

 

[Blue]

Sorry, but I really don't get how you people tick. All your stories about your "guild" make me facepalm - and not really because of the "villain". Your "guild" feels like drama class trying to roleplay adults.

"Some guy screwed us over - we are going to be really hard on him and lower his character rank, after all I'm such a tough master-schemer."

Seriously?

Would you rather they go truly medieval and publicly hang, draw and quarter him?

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Dollie

Would you rather they go truly medieval and publicly hang, draw and quarter him?

This seems reasonable.
At 27 I gave birth to my last child. At that same time I had a hysterectomy and other female surgeries. I don't remember fainting. But I also didn't drive and still don't. I have no idea what the guild is. Maybe some secret Scientology type thing or just a gang of bowlers having a good time.
I never could figure out that 0400 stuff even though some friends and our kids were Marines.
Everyone in pain or heartbreak good luck.

 

[Primalex]

Would you rather they go truly medieval and publicly hang, draw and quarter him?

No - do stuff like adults, like have the trailer towed and sue him for the costs if he is unwilling to pay for the damage he caused. The guild is at least a partnership (in the legal sense). Or like...just throw him out? Of course, damage was mitigated thanks to some dumb bitch risking her health, so everyone can say afterwards it wasn't such a big deal that warrants exclusion.

 

[Eva_Star]

No - do stuff like adults, like have the trailer towed and sue him for the costs if he is unwilling to pay for the damage he caused. The guild is at least a partnership (in the legal sense). Or like...just throw him out? Of course, damage was mitigated thanks to some dumb bitch risking her health, so everyone can say afterwards it wasn't such a big deal that warrants exclusion.

Why are you always so grouchy? Get laid. For the good of all, please get dick deep in something!

 

[Vixandra]

Why are you always so grouchy? Get laid. For the good of all, please get dick deep in something!

It's just the internet persona he likes to use. Meh. Some people are just like that and you can't make them change. But you can ignore them as they rarely have something of value to add to a conversation.

 

[Primalex]

But you can ignore them as they rarely have something of value to add to a conversation.

Whatever "value" means.
9 out of 10 of your posts this year have been:
"Let me tell you about my medical condition and terrible life."

I don't mind, but don't try to make it look like you wouldn't use this place just as your personal garbage dump. I can't stand hypocrites.

Show me a single post where you actually tried to help someone with advice - or shut the fuck up.

 

[Eva_Star]

Not counting the change that was handed back to me until I got to work...realizing she shorted me $10.

Irritating. My own fault for not paying attention.

Grr.

 

[Farawyn]

Whatever "value" means.
9 out of 10 of your posts this year have been:
"Let me tell you about my medical condition and terrible life."

I don't mind, but don't try to make it look like you wouldn't use this place just as your personal garbage dump. I can't stand hypocrites.

Show me a single post where you actually tried to help someone with advice - or shut the fuck up.

That’s what this thread is for. If she wants to post here to vent, she can.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.
And STFU.